User:Haxxy

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If you've come here, you may be looking for my contact information. here's my Facebook profile. My email address is 49geek@gmail.com and my AIM screen name is: FE Haxxy

My name is Dan Salvato. I have gone to CTY Lancaster Session 1 for all of my years of CTY (2005-2008), and I am totally going to be an RA after my first year of college. I am probably most well-known for creating the Dr. Mario Dance (which is now Canon!) but perhaps also for my breakdancing. I also take the game Four-Square to a very extreme (but non-competitive) level.

For those of you who support the Dr. Mario Dance, thank you so much. To the max. It really means a lot, and I'm totally excited to see how far it gets in tradition, specifically how long it manages to remain a part of the Lower Canon.

A video of me doing the dance can be found here.

You can see a video of my '07 hall performing the Dr. Mario Dance here.

Also, here is a video of me doing windmills! It's old so they're all slow, but I'll try to get a better video up soon. =)

At Passionfruit during my third year of CTY (2007), the Holy Grail of the Son was passed on to me by Tina Ritter. The Holy Grail of the Son represents creativity, creating new CTY tradition, and staying fresh and on top of things. Being a holder of the Grail was totally awesome! I hope it will be passed into worthy hands for years to come.

At Passionfruit during my fourth and final year of CTY (2008), I passed down the Holy Grail of the Son to Alex "Sasha" Ayvazov. Sasha truly understands the beauty and value of CTY and is a wonderful, loving person. I know he will make a great Son. Make friends with him! Please? <3

During CTY 2007, by some godly stroke of luck, I was roommates with Zev Hurwich.

If you ever need a hug or a good talk, you can always count on me. I hope your experiences at CTY are totally rad. Mine sure were.

My History at CTY

2005

During my first year of CTY in 2005, I was completely non-traditionalist. I stayed inside during dances, and I knew nothing of the popular CTY activities. However, I did overall have a good time, considering I learned about a branch of mathematics that was new to me, and I did make some friends and have fun. The most notable event, however, was probably during the last dance (which I was forced to attend, since it was indoor due to a thunderstorm) when my friend Artem expressed that he truly cared about me, effectively curing my depression I had throughout middle school. Honestly, I am unsure exactly how that one moment completely cured me; perhaps it just shattered what I had so ignorantly convinced to myself without question over the years. Regardless, that event was also why I decided to return to CTY the next summer.

2006

I still refused to participate in dances and traditions in CTY 2006, although this time around, I was at least happy with where I was in life. I had friends, though not yet nearly to the magnitude I did in the following two years. I was also in the same class as Dharun, who went to the same school as me. It was CTY that essentially caused us to become better friends, though besides him, I do not believe I am still in contact with many people I met in 2006. I do remember some of them, though, and I might restore contact with a couple of them. However, the year was, once again, mostly uneventful, except for the Dr. Mario Dance, of course. Here is a brief history of the dance's origins:

I was sitting in my dorm with my roommate, Kaai, going through some songs on my iPod with a speaker connected. I came across the Dr. Mario song, which I decided to play for fun. I started doing a little dance to it, which Kaai thought was pretty funny. Someone walked by, happened to look in, and he thought it was funny, too. Before I knew it, I was standing up, improvising a dance to the song while half a dozen people watched in amusement. When I concluded, I was urged to bring my new dance to the kitchen to re-perform to the rest of my hall. Upon doing so, everybody had a desire to learn the dance. I eventually found the time to teach them, and seven of us, including myself, performed it during the last dance, which was followed by enthusiastic cheers by hundreds of people.

2007

CTY 2007 is what changed everything for me. By some incredible chance, I was roommates with Zev Hurwich, the most traditionalist and well-known person at CTY. Though the session started the same as usual, I slowly exposed myself to more and more tradition, thanks to making friends with Zev and people associated with him. Though I had still been missing out on some of the more important traditions (BLT, Acting Improv, Silent Football, Rocky Horror, and more), I introduced myself to many. As I did this, I began to become extremely close to some of my new friends. However, some found me to be annoying and clingy, which I must admit I was in some circumstances. Also, my hall very willingly accepted the Dr. Mario Dance, and I taught them, as well as my RA, Ruven, and Frank Wang. As we performed it during a dance and again at the end of the Talent Show, more and more people took a liking to the dance and wanted to learn.

During Passionfruit on the last day of the session, three nomores who called themselves the Trinity - comprised of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost - were ready to pass down their positions to three onemores who they felt deserved them. As the Son represented creativity and the creation of tradition, I was awarded the Holy Grail of the Son, and thus was to be the Son of CTY 2008. As CTY came to a close, I became more emotional than I ever thought I could, and I learned some important social lessons about being clingy and understanding from subtle actions how people feel about me. I also become inexplicably infatuated over a certain girl who I still sometimes crush on like a little kid.

2008

CTY 2008 was my most enjoyable year, and ironically, my most damaging. As the Son, I quickly caught up with the rest of the traditions and made friends with everyone in the Alcove. However, because CTY directly followed a painful loss of a friend, I began to develop unhealthy philosophies regarding relationships, social groups, physical contact, etc. I ended up kissing three different girls regularly and spreading my philosophies to others. By the time the year was over, I was caught in a surreal state of mind with extremely unrealistic expectations of the world, myself, and my maturity. The time period following was the most shameful and embarrassing period of my life, but fortunately, I've recovered since.

-Dan

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